At this point, it's no surprise that Republican operatives launched concerted attacks on town hall meetings. As Think Progress points out, one foot soldier described herself to NBC news as "just a mom" was in actuality a local Republican leader who ran an unsuccessful campaign against the rep who convened the town hall.
Paul Krugman's Op-Ed "The Town Hall Mob" in today's NYT tackles these Astroturf, phony grassroots campaigns. He points out that there is some legitimate opposition to health care reform, and not all of these demonstrators are shills from Freedom Works or Conservatives for Patients' Rights. Instead, he points to the false ideas pushed by the Republican leadership, Fox news, and misperceptions regarding the nature of medicare/medicaid. On the latter, it appears that many people mistakenly believe that medicare/medicaid isn't a government run program. Don't get me wrong, I can't understand why or how you can arrive at that conclusion.
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